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An A-grade student from one of the poorest areas in the country has had an offer of a place on a prestigious medical course withdrawn after admissions officers ruled that a spent criminal conviction meant he could not be trusted to become a doctor.
Majid Ahmed, 18, from Little Horton in Bradford, lost an appeal against the decision by Imperial College London to bar him from its medicine degree, a move that youth justice charities labelled discriminatory and MPs called unfair.
Ahmed was convicted of burglary in 2005 and ordered to serve a four-month referral order for community service. His conviction is spent and he has moved schools, volunteered with disability charities and won four A grades at A-level.
Imperial offered him a place for study this academic year, an offer which was withdrawn after he wrote to tell the college of his conviction. The university said the decision had been made to uphold trust in the medical profession.
I hope you didn’t expect school administrators in Britain to be in touch with reality? The function has devolved into a beancounter specialty, grounded in devotion to bureacracy.
# 19 – You are absolutely right!
# 18 – “#16 said: “…Carry a gun to defend yourself from the other dude with a gun! The fact that if neither of you had one of the bloody things, this wouldn’t be a problem seems to have eluded a large portion of otherwise rational people…”
So, making guns illegal will rid ourselves from murders. I thought you said it would be the other way around?
I’m with you here, if you leave guns legal, no one would need to use them nor want to kill others or themelves.”
Umm… you seem to have managed to trip yourself up in your own thought process… scarcity of guns means less of them to go bang. That said the biggest issue is not the legality or otherwise of guns – Australia has alot of guns, owned by farmers mainly, but a low gun crime rate in comparison to the US… Why is this? It is to do with the attitude towards them – Australians do not have the “right to bear arms” bullcrap, nor is it legal to kill to defend property. They rely on their police force to do the defending for them, and that police force has an easier job than in the US, as the crims they are dealing with generally do not have firearms… hmmm… However, due to the slow infiltration of US ideas re self-defence, the gun related crime in OZ has gone up in recent years.
In Oz a gun is a tool, like a shovel or a tractor – handguns are ILLEGAL as their only purpose is to be hidden and who needs to hide a tool? Only a crim would need to hide a gun, so what need is there for handguns? Automatics are also illegal, how many kangaroos or wounded cattle do you need to kill all at once?